2 Samuel 5:10

5:10 David’s power grew steadily, for the Lord God ¹  who commands armies ²  was with him. ³ 

2 Samuel 6:18

6:18 When David finished offering the burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, he pronounced a blessing over the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.

2 Samuel 8:16

David’s Cabinet

8:16 Joab son of Zeruiah was general in command of ⁴  the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was secretary;

2 Samuel 10:7

10:7 When David heard the news, he sent Joab and the entire army to meet them. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 20:23

20:23 Now Joab was the general in command of all the army of Israel. Benaiah the son of Jehoida was over the Kerethites and the Perethites.

2 Samuel 2:8

David’s Army Clashes with the Army of Saul

2:8 Now Abner son of Ner, the general in command of Saul’s army, had taken Saul’s son Ish-bosheth ⁶  and had brought him to Mahanaim.

2 Samuel 3:23

3:23 When Joab and all the army that was with him arrived, Joab was told: “Abner the son of Ner came to the king; he sent him away, and he left in peace!”

2 Samuel 7:26

7:26 so you may gain lasting fame, ⁷  as people say, ⁸  ‘The Lord of hosts is God over Israel!’ The dynasty ⁹  of your servant David will be established before you,

2 Samuel 10:16

10:16 Then Hadadezer sent for Arameans from ¹⁰  beyond the Euphrates River, ¹¹  and they came to Helam. Shobach, the general in command of Hadadezer’s army, led them. ¹² 

2 Samuel 6:2

6:2 David and all the men who were with him traveled ¹³  to ¹⁴  Baalah ¹⁵  in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name ¹⁶  of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

2 Samuel 7:8

7:8 “So now, say this to my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd ¹⁷  to make you leader of my people Israel.

2 Samuel 7:27

7:27 for you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have told ¹⁸  your servant, ‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ ¹⁹  That is why your servant has had the courage ²⁰  to pray this prayer to you.

2 Samuel 10:18

10:18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers. ²¹  He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there.

2 Samuel 17:25

17:25 Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married ²²  Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ²³  God will punish me severely, ²⁴  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

¹ tc 4QSam^a and the LXX lack the word “God,” probably due to harmonization with the more common biblical phrase “the Lord of hosts.”

² tn Traditionally, “the Lord God of hosts” (KJV, NASB); NIV, NLT “the Lord God Almighty”; CEV “the Lord (+ God NCV) All-Powerful.”

³ tn The translation assumes that the disjunctive clause is circumstantial-causal, giving the reason for David’s success.

⁴ tn Heb “was over.”

⁷ tn The words “the news” and “to meet them” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.

¹⁰ sn The name Ish-bosheth means in Hebrew “man of shame.” It presupposes an earlier form such as Ish-baal (“man of the Lord”), with the word “baal” being used of Israel’s God. But because the Canaanite storm god was named “Baal,” that part of the name was later replaced with the word “shame.”

¹³ tn Heb “and your name might be great permanently.” Following the imperative in v. 23b, the prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result.

¹⁴ tn Heb “saying.” The words “as people” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.

¹⁵ tn Heb “the house.” See the note on “dynastic house” in the following verse.

¹⁶ tn Heb “and Hadadezer sent and brought out Aram which is.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “from beyond the River.” The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹⁸ tn Heb “was before them.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “arose and went.”

²⁰ tn Heb “from,” but the following context indicates they traveled to this location.

²¹ tn This is another name for Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Chr 13:6).

²² tc The MT has here a double reference to the name (שֵׁם שֵׁם, shem shem). Many medieval Hebrew mss in the first occurrence point the word differently and read the adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”). This is also the understanding of the Syriac Peshitta (Syr., taman). While this yields an acceptable understanding to the text, it is more likely that the MT dittographic here. The present translation therefore reads שֵׁם only once.

²² tn Heb “and from after the sheep.”

²⁵ tn Heb “have uncovered the ear of.”

²⁶ tn Heb “a house.” This maintains the wordplay from v. 11 (see the note on the word “house” there) and is continued in v. 29.

²⁷ tn Heb “has found his heart.”

²⁸ tn Heb “horsemen” (so KJV, NASB, NCV, NRSV, NLT) but the Lucianic recension of the LXX reads “foot soldiers,” as does the parallel text in 1 Chr 19:18. Cf. NAB, NIV.

³¹ tn Heb “come to.”

³⁴ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

³⁵ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”